2. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) comes in second on our list, bringing in $24,000 from private prison companies in 2012. The donations came directly to the Boehner’s campaign, through his John Boehner for Speaker Committee, and through The Freedom Project-Friends of John Boehner PAC, which is closely aligned with the speaker. In fact, CCA was one of TFP’s biggest donors, having given it $10,000. Boehner is not only a promoter of immigrant detention, but also one of the main hinderances to new immigration laws coming before the House

It’s pretty clear that, just as it happened in Arizona, companies that profit from the detention of immigrants and the imprisonment of people more generally are having a huge impact on the way that the immigration debate is being shaped in Congress. And as per usual, women, queers, and trans folks will disproportionately bear this burden.

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Verónica Bayetti Flores has spent the last years of her life living and breathing reproductive justice. She has led national policy and movement building work on the intersections of immigrants' rights, health care access, young parenthood, and LGBTQ liberation, and has worked to increase access to contraception and abortion, fought for paid sick leave, and demanded access to safe public space for queer youth of color. In 2008 Verónica obtained her Master’s degree in the Sexuality and Health program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She loves cooking, making art, listening to music, and thinking about the ways art forms traditionally seen as feminine are valued and devalued. In addition to writing for Feministing, she is currently spending most of her time doing policy work to reduce the harms of LGBTQ youth of color's interactions with the police and making sure abortion care is accessible to all regardless of their income.

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